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...video apologizing for her husband's crime.) But President Chen's foes claim that the assassination attempt was engineered to win sympathy votes?and with Chen the suspect dead, they argue that the investigators' findings are impossible to prove. "The police reasoning is far-fetched," complains Li Yong-ping, a legislator from the opposition People First Party. "All the evidence doesn't explain such a conclusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Shot Chen Shui-Bian? | 3/14/2005 | See Source »

...objective of a Beirut game is to throw a ping pong ball into cups of beer placed on opposite sides of a table. When a player sinks the ball into a cup, a member of the opposing team must chug that cup of beer. The rules posted on thefacebook.com allowed for underage players to participate in the tournament drinking 2% milk in place of beer...

Author: By Katherine M. Gray, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Facebook Cancels Beirut Tourney | 2/7/2005 | See Source »

...courage of that province's denizens "earns them the respect of their enemies." The most popular song of the past two years compares people in the region near North Korea to the Communist Party's most revered soldier-hero, Lei Feng. And China's most popular sitcom producer, Ping Da, says he plans to shoot a series of new programs set in cities around China, "full of inside jokes that people from elsewhere won't get." Even Tom and Jerry - who are mute in the original - will stay vocal. Banned from broadcast, they're available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Cat-and-Mouse Game | 1/23/2005 | See Source »

...courage of that province's denizens "earns them the respect of their enemies." The most popular song of the past two years compares people in the region near North Korea to the Communist Party's most revered soldier-hero, Lei Feng. And China's most popular sitcom producer, Ping Da, says he plans to shoot a series of new programs set in cities around China, "full of inside jokes that people from elsewhere won't get." Even Tom and Jerry--who are mute in America--will stay vocal. Banned from broadcast, they're available on DVD. --By Matthew Forney/Beijing

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Cat-and-Mouse Game | 1/23/2005 | See Source »

...devastating tsunamis, which are often no more than a few inches high there. But when the water's depth decreases, the wavelength shortens and the height of the wave increases. Then it crashes onto shore with the power to wreck buildings and throw trucks around as if they were Ping-Pong balls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sea of Sorrow | 1/2/2005 | See Source »

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